h/t Yvonne Ridley

9 Feb 2026
https://substack.com/@mirala/note/c-212092751

- following the approval of a death penalty law that feels like it belongs to a
different century.

The Prison Service is already moving ahead with the logistics. They're setting
up a dedicated execution complex (!!) and have settled on hanging as the method.

To keep the guards from feeling the psychological weight of what they're doing,
they've designed a system where three people press buttons at the same time -
making it impossible to know who actually triggered the floor. They are even
looking for "specialized volunteers" to form these teams.

There is something so deeply broken about a society that recruits volunteers to
hang people. A delegation is even expected to travel to an East Asian country to
study their administrative and legal mechanisms for execution. They are turning
the prison system into a place where ending a life is just another
administrative task to be refined.

While most legal systems involve years of appeals, these executions are set to
happen within 90 days of a verdict. The plan is to start with "elite" prisoners
from the October 7 events and then expand the law to Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank. Those held in the execution complex will be kept in complete
isolation, severed from any human contact before their time is up.

The bill is written so broadly that it allows for the death penalty even in
cases where a death wasn't intentional, but is interpreted as being motivated by
"hostility" toward Israelis. In practice, this framework only applies to
Palestinians. It ignores the dual legal structure where settlers fall under
civilian law while Palestinians are prosecuted in military courts with a 99%
conviction rate.

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